Police are investigating a possible double homicide after the physique of a second lady was present in Melbourne’s CBD.
Officers had been known as to a La Trobe Avenue condominium on the night of December 27 after a 31-year-old Chinese language lady was discovered useless.
A 22-year-old man from Huntingdale in Melbourne’s southeast was subsequently charged with homicide, theft and theft after a public enchantment and an in depth police search.
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Police revealed on Saturday that they went to a different CBD condominium on Friday as a part of their investigation into the Chinese language lady’s dying.
They discovered the physique of a 51-year-old Docklands lady in an condominium on Waterside Place.
Detectives had been but to find out the precise circumstances of the dying, however had been treating it as suspicious and believed it was linked to the dying of the primary lady, police stated.
Officers imagine each girls knew the Huntingdale man, and detectives weren’t searching for anybody else in relation to the deaths.
Police urged anybody who witnessed suspicious exercise across the Docklands condominium or who had CCTV between December 27 and 29 to come back ahead.
“I perceive there’s a variety of concern and anxiousness from the group, significantly those that reside within the CBD and surrounding suburbs, following the dying of each these girls this week,” crime command Detective Performing Superintendent Dean Thomas stated.
“At this stage there’s nothing to point we’re searching for any additional victims, and we now have a person in custody who was recognized to each girls.
“He has been charged in relation to the dying of the 31-year-old lady who was situated on the Latrobe Avenue condominium and our inquiries are ongoing by way of what connection he has to the second dying.”
Police had been guaranteeing the ladies’s households had entry to assist companies, and officers thought they had been with them at what was a devastating time, Det. Thomas stated.
The Huntingdale man was on Friday remanded in custody to seem on the Melbourne Magistrates Court docket in Could.
